CONFERENCE DELEGATES TO LOOK AT ANTI-SUBSTANCE ABUSE PROGRAMS

The Northern Territory police's drug and alcohol unit will take
delegates from the Australasian Drug Strategy Conference to
Hermannsburg, west of Alice Springs today, to inspect anti-substance
abuse programs.

The unit's Scott Mitchell says delegates will be shown examples of how
people in remote Aboriginal communities are tackling substance abuse.

He says they will see the achievements as well as the challenges
facing the communities.

"We've tried to cover across the range of Indigenous communities," he
said.

"Petrol sniffing, night patrol sort of stuff so that we can expose the
delegates to a wide range of specifically Indigenous issues in rural
and remote Australia."